3rd Circuit: Knowledge After Action Can’t Show Rescinded Job Was Retaliatory

Mealey's (May 6, 2020, 2:25 PM EDT) -- PHILADELPHIA — A federal government agency official’s decision to rescind a job offer after learning that the applicant failed to disclose an earlier firing can’t be shown to have been retaliatory where knowledge of the applicant’s Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s charge challenging her firing became known only after the decision was already made, a Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled April 23 (Priscilla Giuseffi v. Secretary United States Department of Homeland Security, No. 19-2411, 3rd Cir., 2020 U.S. App. LEXIS 13065)....